DIALOGUE THROUGH POETRY / WORLD POETRY DAY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Prominent Poets and High School Students Celebrate World Poetry Day in New York City and Read Poems About Peace.
CONTACT: Ram Devineni, Program Coordinator
1-212-560-7459 / 1-212-723-4125 or devineni@dialoguepoetry.org
Renowned poets Robert Creeley, Marilyn Hacker, Vijay Seshadri, Grace Schulman, Amiri and Amini Baraka join High School students from around the world to celebrate UNESCO’s World Poetry Day and the United Nation’s “Dialogue Among Civilizations” on Wednesday, March 19, 2003 at 8:00 PM at Mason Hall, Baruch College, 17 Lexington Ave. at 23rd St. in New York City. The event is free and open to the public. In addition, UN Ambassadors will also read their poems.
High School students from around the world were asked to write poems about the United Nations and how it can foster peace in these troubling times. The free competition was organized by the CCNY Poetry Outreach Center, which has hosted the Spring Poetry Festival for over 30 years, Rattapallax magazine, and Baruch College Performing Arts Center. The New York City winners include Katarzyna Kozanecka from Stuyvesant High School and Mohammed Abbasi from Brooklyn Technical High School.
Also, prominent women poets will join Swami Ramananada for a reading dedicated to the United Nations’ Declaration on the “Elimination of All Forms of Violence Against Women” on March 20, 2003 at 8:00 PM at the New York Open Center, 83 Spring Street, New York City. Some of the featured poets include Veronica Golos, Haale, Maria Terrone, D.H. Melhem, Flavia Rocha, Elaine Schwager, Daniela Gioseffi, Ruth Nolan, and many others. The reading coincides with a three-day program organized by Nela Rio at St. Thomas University, Fredericton, Canada.
Robert Creeley has published more than sixty books of poetry in the United States and abroad, including Just in Time: Poems 1984-1994. His honors include the Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award, the Frost Medal, the Shelley Memorial Award, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a Rockefeller Foundation grant, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation. Marilyn Hacker is the author of nine books, including Presentation Piece, which received the National Book Award in 1975. Her Selected Poems was awarded the Poets' Prize in 1996. She now lives in New York and Paris, and is director of the M.A. program in English literature and creative writing at the City College of New York. Vijay Seshadri was born in India and lives in Brooklyn, NY. Graywolf Press published a collection of his poetry, Wild Kingdom. He is Chair, Writing Program in Non-Fiction at Sarah Lawrence College. Grace Schulman's The Paintings of Our Lives, was released by Houghton Mifflin in February, 2001. She is Poetry Editor of the Nation, and former director of the Poetry Center, 92nd Street Y. Amiri Baraka’s wrote the play the Dutchman, which won an Obie Award for "best off-Broadway play" and was made into a film. In 1983, he and Amina Baraka edited Confirmation: An Anthology of African-American Women, which won an American Book Award and in 1987 they published The Music: Reflections on Jazz and Blues. Amiri Baraka’s literary prizes and honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Rockefeller Foundation Award for Drama, and the Langston Hughes Award.
For more information about the program please visit http://www.dialoguepoetry.org
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